Macavity Awards: Best First Mystery Novel

1. 1987 The Ritual Bath: The First Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Novel by Faye Kellerman Drag me to re-order

2. 1987 ? A Case of Loyalties by Marilyn Wallace Drag me to re-order

3. 1988 Monkey's Raincoat (Elvis Cole Novels) by Robert Crais Drag me to re-order

4. 1989 The Killings at Badger's Drift (Inspector Barnaby) by Caroline Graham Drag me to re-order

5. 1990 Grime and Punishment (Jane Jeffrey Mysteries, No. 1) by Jill Churchill Drag me to re-order

6. 1991 Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta) by Patricia Cornwell Drag me to re-order

7. 1992 Murder on the Iditarod Trail (Alaska Mysteries) by Sue Henry Drag me to re-order

8. 1992 ? Zero at the Bone: A Mystery by Mary Willis Walker Drag me to re-order

9. 1993 ? Blanche on the Lam by Barbara Neely Drag me to re-order

10. 1994 Death Comes As Epiphany: A Catherine LeVendeur Mystery by Sharan Newman Drag me to re-order

11. 1995 Do Unto Others by Jeff Abbott Drag me to re-order

12. 1996 The Strange Files of Fremont Jones: A Fremont Jones Mystery (Fremont Jones Mysteries) by Dianne Day Drag me to re-order

13. 1997 Death in Little Tokyo (A Ken Tanaka Mystery) by Dale Furutani Drag me to re-order

14. 1998 Dead Body Language (Crime Line.) by Penny Warner Drag me to re-order

15. 1999 Sympathy for the Devil by Kent Anderson Drag me to re-order

16. 2000 Inner City Blues (Fawcett Book) by Paula L. Woods Drag me to re-order

17. 2001 A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss Drag me to re-order

18. 2002 Open Season (A Joe Pickett Novel) by C. J. Box Drag me to re-order

19. 2003 In the Bleak Midwinter (A Rev. Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Mystery) by Julia Spencer-Fleming Drag me to re-order

20. 2004 Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear Drag me to re-order

21. 2005 Dating Dead Men: A Novel by Harley Jane Kozak Drag me to re-order

22. 2006 Immoral by Brian Freeman Drag me to re-order

23. 2007 Mr. Clarinet by Nick Stone Drag me to re-order

24. 2008 In the Woods by Tana French Drag me to re-order

25. 2009 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson Drag me to re-order

26. 2010 The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Flavia de Luce Mystery (Flavia de Luce Mysteries) by Alan Bradley Drag me to re-order

27. 2011 Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva Drag me to re-order